I Was Possessed By An Unknown Manga

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When I opened my eyes to the feeling of the car being stopped, the scenery outside the window that was in the middle of the city was completely changed.

A mountainside somewhere in the suburbs.

Perhaps you have arrived on the set of a drama.

Turning their stiff shoulders and looking around, the other people were already busy preparing to get off.

I came naked from the beginning and had nothing to do except prepare and get off the bus in first place while people were shivering around Busan.

“Whoa-“

The fresh air that cannot be felt in downtown Tokyo permeated deep into the lungs.

It’s a world away from the stuffy air inside the bus.

“That… bachelor? We should get off too.”

“Oh, sorry.”

I hurriedly left my seat at the sound of a voice from behind.

Then, the old woman who was standing in front of the bus stairs leaned her head toward me and ran to the side of the temporary building.

It was the same for everyone else, but without making eye contact with me, who was standing next to the door, he rushed to the drama set.

In the end, left alone, I followed them to the direction of the set.

***

~The Blue~ Academy Youth Apocalypse.

It’s the name of the drama I’m starring in a minor role today.

After hearing that Rika had an original work, I went back home and looked for it, and it turned out that it was a very popular work about 10 years ago.

Of course, it was only natural that I didn’t know the name of this cartoon because it was limited to the worldview of ‘Scramble Love’.

Of course, it was also an anime, so after watching a few episodes on the Internet, I had only very simple information entered in my head.

If there was a single line of dialogue, I would say that it is a minor role at a fortunate level, so it would be of little use.

I followed the people on the fish-like bus to the waiting room at the corner of the set, when I heard a familiar voice in the distance.

“Ah! Senpai! Here it is!”

Nao Minato, who was the one who scouted me for a part-time job, was waving with a happy expression.

Thanks to this, the aggro of the people around me was immediately drawn to me.

Hey, how many people on the set can be called senior by an actress who is called the nation’s younger sister?

The minor and extra actors walking in front looked at me like it was new, but I felt like I wanted to hide in a mouse hole.

Anyway, she said hello first, but I couldn’t refuse, so I strode towards her.

“Ah, is this the old school senior Minato-san was talking about?”

“Yes! I’m Kim Yoo-seong-senpai! Director!”

As Minato said that, he suddenly embraced my left arm.

Embarrassed by her sudden action, I tried to lean back, but a beat faster than that, the person called the director burst out in a lively laugh and tapped my shoulder.

“Heh ha ha ha! The picture is worse than the real thing! I like it very much! It’s Minato-san! It scratches the itchy spots very clearly!”

I wondered what the situation was, so I looked down at Minato next to me, and she bit her tongue and said.

“Today, a different actor was originally appointed for the role that the senior was taking, but it seems that he didn’t really fit the mood the director had in mind. So I showed him a picture of me, so he asked me to cast him.”

… There must have been such a story.

I looked at Minato and the director’s faces alternately with a bewildered expression, and decided to ask a question that came to mind.

“Is there any dialogue for the role I’m playing today? I’ve never done anything like acting before.”

Then, the director said, “Don’t worry.”

“You can just sit and say a word. And it’d be better if it felt awkward. That would create a more rigid atmosphere.”

“Ah yes.”

Well, if you say something like this, it will be fine.

I decided not to think too hard.

I even said hello to the two of them, so while I was about to go to the waiting room for the performers, the director suddenly called me.

“Wait a minute.”

“…?”

I looked back to see what was going on, and the director said, “Hmm,” and looked up at me.

“The hat suits you better than you think. The original character is set to not wear a hat, but if it were you, it would be fine.”

Saying that, I called one of the staff members passing by, pointed at me and instructed me to bring the Gakuran.

“There is quite a bit of time left to film the scene in which you appear, so if it’s okay, you can even take a tour of the set. If you get my permission as the director, all the other staff will tell you.”

“Oh, thank you.”

I honestly thanked the director for the unexpected consideration.

It’s because I’ve heard that if you’re doing something like filming a drama, you’ll often have to wait for a long time for a small role.

There’s nothing better than that, as it allows you to make the right amount of time for waiting.

To be honest, how many times do ordinary people come to a drama set in their lifetime?

Even 50,000 yen per day was not enough, and if you could even tour the filming site, it was no less than a business that would remain.

“Instead, you know that filming is prohibited, right? Minato-san’s senior, so I don’t think so, but please pay attention to the security of the filming site.”

“yes.”

“Then see you in a little while, senior.”

As I was seen off by the two of them, I moved towards the waiting room where the minor actors were headed earlier.

***

The waiting room of the minor actors was a container.

Perhaps it is because, unlike the main actors, there are many people who work individually, each of them is busy dressing up according to the role they are playing.

Usually, when there are so many people, it makes a lot of noise, but inside the container it was as quiet as a mouse.

Thanks to this, it became difficult to talk to someone, and as I sat in a corner alone and fiddled with my smartphone, the container door opened and someone came in.

“Who is Kim Yoo-seong, who plays the role of the bully boss today?”

“That’s me.”

squeak!

When I got up with that answer, everyone in the container turned to me.

I wondered if the sound of the chair was that loud, but I put an iron plate on my face and approached the staff standing in front of the container door.

Then the drama staff, who looked up at me with a bewildered expression, held out the clothes and hats they were holding and said:

“You can wear this outfit today…but are you really in high school?”

I nodded and took the costume the staff offered me.

“Can I show you my student ID?”

“Oh, no. It’s fine.”

The staff shook their heads while saying that, so they didn’t know when to call, so they asked me to dress up in advance and wait.

After I said yes, I changed clothes in the small changing room inside the container.

When I said gakuran, I thought of general gakuran, but it turned out that it was a modified gakuran in the form of a long coat that only appeared in 80s cartoons.

If you put a student cap on it, it will look like it just popped out of a cartoon.

I wondered if this was okay because it gave off a cosplay feel rather than a drama costume, but when I realized that this was a Japanese drama based on a manga, I was convinced.

This is because, in the original Japanese live-action drama, even if it looks awkward to anyone, it is made up under the guise of reproducing the original.

By the way, I didn’t even wear a wig, so I should say I’m lucky.

While looking at the full-length mirror that could only be seen down to the neck, I carefully opened the locker room door and stepped out of the dressing room for the first time trying on a modified Gakuran.

Still inside the silent container.

When I was in the locker room, I think I could still hear some conversation, but now it’s quiet again.

It seemed like it was because of me, so I decided to vacate the seat as much as I could.

I got permission from the director to tour the filming site, but it’s not fun to just sit and wait.

***

Yamada, who is in his third year of a minor role this year, had his own pride and dream as an actor.

Although he is only a nameless rookie now, he has a strong ambition to one day stand at the top of the entertainment industry!

With that in his heart, he worked hard day by day to move from station to station.

But like him, a friend he was working with as a minor actor was suddenly cut from his role.

Surprised, I called and asked, it seems that the director unilaterally fired him because he found a better actor.

Yamada wanted to question this fact, but in the face of the harsh reality, there was nothing he could do.

If you make a mistake, even your role could be cut off.

So, I was thinking of pushing out the original role and seeing how good the newcomer who came in by parachute was.

If it’s a guy who doesn’t have much to do with it, I promise I’ll show you the bitter taste as a senior.

However, on the day of filming, it was a huge ‘something’ that made up his mind and greeted Yamada on the bus.

Normally, everyone would have been chattering because everyone knew the face, but the bus was as quiet as death.

It was all because of a man sitting in the front seat of the bus with his eyes closed quietly.

Truly an overwhelming presence.

As if the ‘bell’ itself was different, a man exuding the dignity of a king was sleeping with his baseball cap pressed deeply.

The moment he saw it, Yamada was convinced.

His friend was not unfairly pushed aside.

The role was transferred to a more suitable person.

“Hey! Yamada! Sit down! Then I’ll wake up!”

“Ah yes!”

Regardless of the grim determination he made when he first got on the bus, he turned into a docile sheep and entered the fence.